Workshop

Workshop: Phylomemetic and phylogenetic approaches in the

humanities

Saturday, Nov. 24th 2012, University of Bern, Switzerland

Thank you all for participating! See below for links to the presentations held at the workshop.

Abstract submission is closed. If you would like to participate without giving a paper, please let us know by sending a short note to bernphylogeny@gmail.com so we can plan ahead. Feel free to contact us in case of any further questions.

The workshop will be held in room F-121 of Unitobler (basement, entrance from Lerchenweg 36).

A warming up dinner will be taking place at the Restaurant Beaulieu at the corner of Länggassstrasse and Erlachstrasse at 19:30 on Friday evening. There will also be a chance to continue discussion at an informal dinner on saturday evening for those who stay overnight or leave late.

Preliminary program
The timetable may shift during the day, as we want to allow for spontaneous discussion.

09:15

Michael Stolz (Dean of the Arts and Humanities Faculty)

Opening Address

09:25

Gabriel Viehhauser / Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Bern

Phylogenetic algorithms in linguistic and literary studies:
stemmatology in a new edition of Parzival and the analysis of parallel corpus data for a usage-based typology of Slavic

Meeting description:
The use of phylogenetic methods in biology has a long tradition, but has only recently become more mainstream in humanitarian disciplines. We invite contributors from all disciplines who have applied phylogenetic methods to humanistic research problems to present their work in this workshop. We are especially interested in methodological issues that have relevance across the disciplines; this may also include case studies focusing on the applicability of these methods to specific data types and research questions.

The workshop is preceded by a tutorial focusing on the application of phylogenetic methods in literary studies and linguistics. We welcome papers dealing with issues from all humanitarian disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, art history etc.